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TIL- the Mental Health Systems Act, passed int the USA in 1980 had a very short life.

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jJWa TIL That in the first two seasons of the show Kitchen nightmares, Gordon Ramsay rescued 21 restaurants. Only two are still open.
Zm8p TIL that there was a walled city in Hong Kong that housed over 33,000 people in 0.010 square miles, or about one city block.
D1lNJ TIL that the only word in English that ends in -mt is "dreamt", and its extensions like daydreamt and redreamt.
7rMYL TIL about Jim Cummings, the voice of my childhood. He has over 400 voice credits appearing in Winnie the Pooh, Phineas and Ferb, The Powerpuff Girls, Pinky and the Brain, Gargoyles, Biker Mice from Mars, Animaniacs, 2 Stupid Dogs, and Batman: The Animated Series to name a few.
yVjb8 TIL of gamma-ray bursts, immensely energetic explosions that occur when a giant star implodes and becomes a black hole. It can release as much energy in a few seconds as the Sun will in its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. It may also have caused a mass extinction on Earth 440 million years ago.